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The Dixie Fire burned nearly a million acres starting in Butte County and roaring up the Feather River into Plumas County and on into Lassen National Park.The fire flanked into the High Lakes, skirted Phillbrook and Round Valley Reservoirs in the West Branch of the Feather and slopped over in to upper Butte Creek around … Read more
The 2018 run of spawning adult spring-run Chinook salmon in Butte Creek was not abundant by Butte Creek standards. These were the offspring of the 2015 drought-year run. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) estimated only around 2000 spawning adults in 2018, in the lower 25% percentile of the population counts since 1995. The … Read more
Friends of Butte Creek and Resource Renewal Institute work with California Department of Fish and Wildlife to set a precedent for salmon protection in California. An unprecedented collaboration among government, nonprofit and private sectors has led to the one of the first acquisitions of water rights dedicated to instream flows in California. The environmental milestone … Read more
We are sold out! Join us again next year. In 1999, several Butte Creek aficionados, decided that to protect, restore and enhance the watershed, an environmental advocacy group was needed. That year they began drafting a mission, Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws to guide the future of the organization. FBC received Federal non-profit 501(c)3 status … Read more
